The World
Record for Milking Snakes

Over a 10-year period
ending in December 1970, Bernard Keyter (b. 1918), a supervisor
at the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg, South
Africa, personally milked 780,000 venomous snakes and obtained 3960 litres
(870 gallons) of venom for research and serum production. He was never
bitten.